|1= or |chapter= – the name of the chapter quoted from, which will usually be a month of the year, for example |chapter=January. In such cases a fuller chapter name will be automatically provided by the template. For other parts of the work (such as "The Generall Argument of the Whole Booke"), the template will display the chapter name provided.

|2= or |folio=, or |folios= – mandatory in some cases: instead of page numbers, the pages of the work are numbered by folios. Indicate the folio number(s), and whether the rectos or versos of the folios are being quoted from, like this: |folio=41, recto, |folios=41, verso – 42, recto. This parameter must be specified for the template to link to the online version of the 1586 edition of the work at the Internet Archive.

|3= or |url= – mandatory in some cases: because of the erratic page numbering of the work, the template is unable to automatically generate a link. Use this parameter to specify the URL of the webpage of the online version of the work to link to. This parameter must be specified for the link to appear.

|4= or |passage= – the passage to be quoted.

|format= – use |format=full to have the template display a full citation to the work.

1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “October. Aegloga Decima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: Conteyning Tvvelue Æglogues Proportionable to the Twelue Monethes. Entitled to the Noble and Vertuous Gentleman Most Worthy of All Titles both of Learning and Cheualrie M. Philip Sidney, London: Printed by Hugh Singleton, dwelling in Creede Lane neere vnto Ludgate at the signe of the gylden Tunne, and are there to be solde, OCLC606515406; republished as The Shepheardes Calender, Conteining Twelue Æglogues Proportionable to the Twelue Monethes. Entitled to the Noble and Vertuous Gentleman Most Worthie of All Titles, both of Learning and Chiualry, Maister Philip Sidney, London: Imprinted at London by Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, dwelling in Pater noster Roe, at the signe of the anker, 1586, OCLC837880809, folio 41, recto:

And when the ſtubborne ſtroke of ſtronger ſtounds, / Has ſomewhat ſlackt the tenor of thy ſtring; / Of loue and luſtihead tho maiſt thou ſing, / And carroll lowde, and leade the Millers rounde, […]